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A40482	A relation of two several voyages made into the East Indies by Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schewitzer the whole containing an exact account of the customs, dispositions, manners, religion, &c. of the several kingdoms and dominions in those parts of the world in general : but in a more particular manner, describing those countries which are under the power and government of the Dutch / done out of the Dutch by S.L .	Frick, Christoph, b. 1659.; Schweitzer, Christoph.	1700 (1700)	Wing F2211; ESTC R33794	234,144	381

day and then we found that we were 20 Leagues off when we first discover'd it Otherwise upon a smooth Sea we could not see farther than five Leagues in a streight Line This difference happens from the extraordinary height of the Hill above the surface of the Water The 26th 27th and 28th Ditto we had good Weather The 1st of March early in the morning We spied two Ships with Dutch Flags and Pendants that were Roving about but we would not trust them for we knew the Turkish Pyrates used to Lurk about this Mountain of the Canaries or the Southern Islands After a Council of War held our Admiral about Noon sailed foremost to take better notice of them and he quickly found them to be what we suspected We were not the only one who made our selves ready for a Fight but our four Ships that came after at about a League distance did the like and gave us notice by an appointed Signal that they were prepared We expected them and towards the Evening the Enemy came somewhat nearer to us yet not within shot all that Night we kept a very strict Watch. The 2d Ditto very early in the morning the Wind blew hard at North-West by which means we lost sight of the Turkish Ships about Twelve at Noon and about the Evening it ceased The 3d we made vast way with a good Wind and about four hours after we spied a Ship and found by her running she was one of the Turks we had seen the day before our Master being a very brisk Sea-Soldier his Name Peter Vander Woetstiin found that he could not possibly out-sail this Pyrate so he lower'd his Sails and staid for him as much as to say that he did not fear him The Turk sailed by us with his Dutch Flag up as near and swift as he could He pretended to be a Friend of ours and set a Renegado to Hail us and ask us in Dutch What Ship And whither Bound Our Master ordered the Gunner to fire and the Men fired so briskly with the lower Tire and batter'd the Mahometan so sorely that they made all the haste they could to get away and found work enough to mend the Holes our Guns had made The 4th in the morning about 7 of the Clock this Turk batter'd as he was came up to us again his Design was to clap us on board and to Storm us We having a sufficient Force on Board defended our selves so bravely that the Enemy was obliged to run again at night with no small loss On our side we had Twelve kill'd and Twenty wounded Soldiers and Seamen The wounded were all cured In the mean while the Carpenters were employed in Repairing what Damage the Enemies Shot had done us and stopping the Holes The 5th Ditto Our Chaplain Preached a Thanksgiving Sermon for the Assistance God was pleased to give them delivering them through his Mercy out of the Hands of those Cruel Tyrants And after that our Master and Admiral thank'd his People for the help they had given him with so much Gallantry and ordered a Bottle of Sack for every Man From the 6th to the 24th of March we had very blustering Winds and a dreadful violent Storm so that we often thought our selves at the very brink of Death The 25th While that Tempestuous Weather still lasted the Mate and his Boy were catch'd together acting the abominable Sin of Sodomy A Council was held upon it and Sentence was given that they should be tied back to back which was done by the Boatswain and tied in a Sack and thrown alive into the Sea As the Minister was doing his Duty towards these Malefactors representing to them the hainousness of their Crime and directing them to prepare for Death the Boy about 14 years of Age wept bitterly But the Mate being an Italian about 40 years old shew'd himself mighty ready to Die saying 'T was better he should be punish'd alone for his horrid Sin then that the whole Ship should suffer for his sake The 26th the Wind ceased But we hardly knew where we were nor had known it for 20 days time having not been able to make an Observation since the 6th day And On the 27th it being very fine Weather we found that the Storm had carried us under the Equinoctial Line Here it is extream unhealthy and a certain Distemper seized most of our Men which made them raving mad In one day five Persons died one of which was our Chaplain the other four Soldiers These Dead Men were according to the Custom of our Dutch Ships sew'd each Corps by it self in a sheet and after our usual Morning or Evening Prayer with a Psalm sung at the end of it thrown into the Sea The 28th we had no Wind On this day one of our Barbers and two Seamen died and two Soldiers in their raving Fit caused by the intollerable Heat leapt into the Sea which two of our best Swimmers perceiving leap'd in after them and brought 'em into the Ship again But one of 'em after all this hang'd himself that very Night by his Bed-side On the 29th The other Soldier that had leapt in the Sea died having no regard to any good Advice that was given him and could not be made to Pray We had not a Breath of Wind this day nor The 30th and 31th These two days we threw over-board our late Chaplain's 4 Children 4 Chirurgions and Barbers a Carpenter and 10 Soldiers The 1st 2d 3d and 4th of April the Calm held us still And in those four days we lost a Steersman two Carpenters the Serjeant and 30 Soldiers and Seamen so that we expected every Soul should Die out of the Ship The 5th Ditto it pleased God to deliver us from that fatal place by a favourable Wind at West and by-South We had still a great many sick Men and not enough in health to be able to Brace our Main-Sail tho' the Mortality ceased so we were forced to make shift with our small Sails That day we caught with a Hook one of the great Fishes called Sharks that rowl'd and toss'd about our Ship We design'd to dress him and refresh our selves with it but when we cut it open we found in the Belly of it our Serjeant that we had thrown over-board not yet digested The sight of this so turn'd our Stomachs that none could find in their Heart to Eat of the Fish so that we threw Man and Fish into the Sea again It is observable That these great Fish have always some small ones to go before 'em that are called by the name of Pilot-Fishes and swim in and out of the Shark's Mouth And when a Shark is catch'd they cleave to his Back like a Burr But I must not omit what happen'd to my self As I fell Ill and was in a Swoun he that look'd after the sick took me for Dead and fetch'd a new Shirt out of my Chest and was putting it upon me The Sail-maker too was a going to sew

lay them down upon the Ground but must always have a Fan with them to lie in Nor are they permitted to lie under any Roof All their Women are obliged to go Naked all upwards upon pain of being whipt To give you a Specimen of the Cingulaish Language they express their numbers thus 1 Eckai 2 Deccai 3 Dunai 4 Hattarai 5 Paurai 6 Hasai 7 Hattai 8 Attai 9 Nahahai 10 Dahahai 11 Eccollahai 12 Dollahai 13 Dahattunai 14 Dahattarai 15 Pahallohai 20 Wishai 30 Dihai 40 Hattalishai 50 Paswichai 100 Sihai But it is to be observed That here are Diversity of Dialects as in the several Provinces of other Countries and so the Inland Cingularians differ from the Borderers which makes Rob. Knox in his Description of Ceylon give a different Account and generally writes with an o what I put down with an a as Echoi Dechoi Tunhoi Hutterhoi Pauhhoi Hoyhoi Their Salutation is in these Words Deo wardende Sacradende Neinde and is answer'd with the same both clapping their Hands to their Foreheads Whither go you Gaudi Januade I don't know Dutwanetti Fire Genere Water Diwere They write upon the Leaves of Sugar-Trees when they read it is with a very unpleasant Accent and very long Tone as if they sung They write to each other on these Leaves which are about an Ell long and two Inches broad and can fold them up so artificially that none can open them without discovering that they have been open'd They teach their Children to write upon the Sand or Ground with their Fingers As to their Religion they believe That God whom they call Deine governs in Heaven and that the Devil governs on Earth Wherefore they Religiously serve him giving him the Name of Jacie and that not only by Offerings and Songs in their Temples but with Meetings in the Fields under a sort of Tree which I cannot compare to any Tree so well as a Lime-Tree There is a Wall built round it of about half a Man's height Here they Dance Leap and Sing to his Honour He comes to them in their Dance and gives them Answers to their Questions about things to Come As whether it shall be a plentiful Year dry or wet and other things of this kind The Soothsayer too that receives the Answer hath great Honours paid him But because the Devil torments him too much they are forced to carry him away home They believe That those that Die are turn'd into a Bufflar wherefore they give the Bufflars the name of Apetie which signifies Father and to the Cows that of Amme which signifies Mother When the mean illiterate People who cannot Read have a Child Born the Father Plants a young Jacken or Jager-Tree by his House by which he can reckon up the Child's Age. I have been at some of these Men's Houses to Buy Goods and happen'd to ask the Age of some of their Children that came about me and they shew'd me a Tree and told me he was of the same Age with that But they have there a Proverb the cursed Allusion of which they verifie in earnest which is That it is fit a Man should Eat the first Fruits of the Trees they Plant so the Father always deflowers his Daughter as soon as she is come of Age. They have a New-Year's Festival which lasts six weeks and begins about our Easter In the first three weeks they wash themselves every day the other three weeks they pass away in Singing and all kind of Mirth Their dwelling Houses are made according to the conveniency of the Country some are near one another after the manner of our Villages which they call Aldeen Others stand by themselves upon some rising Ground to be secure from the Water which sometimes rises very high by reason of their great Rains They are cover'd with Leaves of Trees There is commonly but Room where they Eat and Lie and another to Dress their Victuals in which they besmear every week with Bufflar's Grease to free themselves from Fleas and Pismires Their Money they generally Bury in a Pot under the Hearth or sometimes under the Devil's Tree in the Field where it is Sacred Their Victuals is Rice boyl'd instead of Bread and what they Eat with it is made of all kinds of Herbs Roots Fruit dry'd or fresh Fish which they Boil with a deal of green Pepper or else with the Milk that comes from the Coco-Nuts Every one takes his share of Rice upon a Fig-Leaf instead of a Plate and takes his other Meat and mixes it together with his Hand and so Eats it They wash their Hands and Mouths very clean before and after Meals They chaw Betel all day which they prepare after this manner They take one or two of the Leaves about as broad as one's Hand they call them Bular They grow all round about against Fruit-Trees as Ivy does Then they take some very fine Chalk made of small Mussel-shells burnt and of it they scatter about as much as will lie on the top of a Knife over those Leaves and then rowl them up and put into the middle a fourth part of an Arck which is a Fruit like a Nutmeg and to this Composition they give the Name of Betel which they keep continually in their Mouth And this is to prevent the Scurvy They Smoak Tobacco too not out of Pipes but wound up in a dry Leaf In their Trade like other Nations they love to Buy as cheap and Sell as dear as they can They have no particular Traffick amongst them dealing almost all in the same Goods One thing which seemed mighty strange to me was That when I or other Europeans came to Buy any such things as Butter Pepper Sugar Honey Figs Fowls Rice c. and ask'd them if they had any they used to say Netti which is to say No. So that we were forced to give them very good Words and insinuate our selves into their favour by giving their Children some Tobacco or some little Trifle Then they would ask their Children even the smallest of 'em whether they had best Sell any thing to these Persons and according to their Answer they either sold to us or refused us and would not have sold us any thing without their Consent tho' we would have paid ten times the value of their Goods When they had sold us any thing and received their full Price they would beg of us that we would give them some of it again tho' at the same time they were well stock'd with the same Commodity Theft tho' but inconsiderable is punished with Death All their King's Commands must punctually be observed upon Pain of Death and that not of the Person only that hath Transgressed but of his Kindred to a third Generation This King of Candi is a very cruel Tyrant Some Europeans that had been Prisoners at his Court for above 20 years have told me That he had order'd no less than 300 in some years to be drawn in pieces with Elephants